Assam:
Four poachers have been arrested in Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park in Assam with animal traps, hog deer antlers and poison tipped arrows.
The poachers were residents of fringe villages of the National Park. The operation was conducted by the Park authorities along with the police and the army.
A mob of over three hundred villagers had attacked forest authorities with sharp weapons demanding the release of the arrested persons. They even tried to destroy one of the camps. The police had to resort to firing.
On January 14 another four persons with rifles were apprehended from the same villages of Bhabapur, Rongagora and Rehmanpur.
Last year three tigers were killed in the vicinity of these villages.
Orang has been under severe stress from encroachment and poaching activities.
A sharp shooter Kham Mun Mang from Nagaland along with Nadi Hussain have also been nabbed. Hussain has murder charges against him and has confessed to have poached rhinos.
The last rhino poached in Orang was on January 25, in which the poachers had gouged out the horn from a living rhinoceros.